Category: Records and research Records and research100 years since Nelson Mandela’s birth, 18 July 1918Wednesday 18 July 2018Nelson Mandela was born at Mvezo, a village near Umtata, Transkei (now Eastern Cape)...Records and researchWhere do I start my research?Monday 16 July 2018Here at The National Archives, we are asked questions covering a huge range of...Records and researchBehind the scenes of organising an exhibition: Modern Brazilian Paintings (1944)Friday 13 July 2018Recently, the Sala Brasil Arts Centre at the Embassy of Brazil hosted the exhibition ‘The...Archives and archivistsWhat’s new in UK archives?Wednesday 11 July 2018Whether it be a gigabyte of data, a single file or 230 boxes of...Records and researchWhy can’t I find what I’m looking for?Monday 9 July 2018Some people contact The National Archives with an unspoken hope that we hold all...Records and researchThe NHS at 70, part 2: publicising national healthFriday 6 July 2018Welcome back to this, the second of my short series of blogs celebrating the...Records and researchThe NHS on filmFriday 6 July 2018When the NHS was founded in 1948, film was in at the ground floor....Records and researchExploring new ways of visualising The National Archives’ First World War diariesMonday 2 July 2018Since 2014, The National Archives has been opening up our collection of handwritten First World...Records and researchAlice Hawkins, suffragette and working womanMonday 2 July 2018Today marks 90 years since the passing of the 1928 Representation of the People...Records and researchEmpire Windrush – 70 years onThursday 21 June 2018Seventy years ago, on 21 June 1948, HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, near...Archives and archivists‘That Point of Land Opposite’: Kowloon and the founding of Hong KongMonday 18 June 2018Over the past couple of months, The National Archives has been putting online our...Records and researchOscar Wilde: triumph, tragedy and exileThursday 14 June 2018In 1895 Oscar Wilde had two successful plays in the West End: ‘The Importance... « 1 … 45 46 47 48 49 … 115 »